New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition

Contents

INTRODUCTION: The Contours of Black Intellectual History
Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron and Ashley D. Farmer

PART I. Black Internationalism
Introduction
- Michael O. West

“Every Wide-Awake Negro Teacher of French Should Know”: The Pedagogies of Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century
- Celeste Day Moore

Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the New Negro Renaissance: Bernardo Ruiz Suárez’s The Color Question in the Two Americas
- Reena N. Goldthree

“To Start Something to Help These People”: African American Women and the Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934
- Brandon R. Byrd

PART II. Religion and Spirituality
Introduction
- Judith Weisenfeld

Isolated Believer: Alain Locke, Baha’i Secularist
- David Weinfeld

The New Negro Renaissance and African American Secularism
- Christopher Cameron

“I Had a Praying Grandmother”: Religion, Prophetic Witness, and Black Women’s Herstories
- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

PART III. Racial Politics and Struggles for Social Justice
Introduction
- Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

Historical Ventriloquy: Black Thought and Sexual Politics in the Interracial Marriage of Frederick Douglass
- Guy Emerson Mount

Reigning Assimilationists and Defiant Black Power: The Struggle to Define and Regulate Racist Ideas
- Ibram X. Kendi

Becoming African Women: Women’s Cultural Nationalist Theorizing in the US Organization and the Committee for Unified Newark
- Ashley D. Farmer

PART IV. Black Radicalism
Introduction
- Robin D. G. Kelley

Runaways, Rescuers, and the Politics of Breaking the Law
- Christopher Bonner

Conspiracies, Seditions, Rebellions: Concepts and Categories in the Study of Slave Resistance
- Gregory Childs

African American Expats, Guyana, and the Pan-African Ideal in the 1970s
- Russell Rickford

CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX